Word: strings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bartel drug stores; in Tacoma for three stores of the French Drug Co. Last week it completed the largest of its late amalgamations by purchasing (for $500,000 cash) eight stores of the Stout-Lyons Drug Co. Portland, Ore., will be the headquarters of a further string of stores, which the Company expects to acquire in every important city on the Pacific Coast...
...Navy were to hold their yearly drill; Notre Dame was to play Nebraska. But the rest has, been decided: Michigan and Northwestern are tied for the Conference Championship; Princeton purrs smugly with one paw on Harvard, one on Yale; Dartmouth, best team in the East, rounded off its unbroken string of victories with the superb soliloquy of "Swede" Oberlander in Chicago; Missouri's wiry tumblers still lead in the Missouri Valley Conference, although Kansas spoiled one of their matin...
Laymen who dramatize in their imaginations the great discoveries of science, would find the actual moment of such discoveries dull enough. One more figure added to a string of decimals, a barely perceptible change of color in a test tube, a splinter of light measured against the angle of a graphed mirror-and the thing is done. The laboratory worker wipes his hands on his apron and goes home to write a paper for the next meeting of the National Academy of Sciences. Last week that notable body, convening in Madison, Wis., listened to various amazing reports...
Harold ("Red") Grange of Illinois (who has received so much publicity that the Knickerbocker Ice Co. recommended its product to the public on the score that he has carried ice on his back) sat on a bench and saw his second and third string teammates beat Wabash on a sloppy field...
Nothing more than signal drill is scheduled for the University today, but the blackshirts will probably put on a series of Yale plays for the benefit of the first-string...